JL Johnson 

After weeks of thinking about it way too much, we finally bought a microwave. Did you know Panasonic and LG are the only big brands that make their own? Everyone else outsources to one big company that mostly uses the same innards.

Also if you are one of the 0.001% of folks (like me) who adjust the cook power, inverter tech is actually value added. Yay!

Apr 10 at 11:25pmWeb
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago

And for those of you keeping track of the Johnsons and their never ending #DisOldHouse drama, kitchen chapter; That brings us back up to having: A fridge, a water cooler, a microwave, an air fryer, a hot plate, a ninja foodie and an espresso machine

Also a nice large empty room with no cabinets, no flooring, no sink. A new ceiling, freshly painted walls, all new electric runs (that aren’t hot) some lighting holes.

Show threadJillian J 4d ago
@User47 meet you at the water cooler in 5
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago
@Jillianmarisa I have some hot gossip about that dumb Robin who keeps attacking its reflection in our windows. The mourning doves say he got taken to the cleaners in his divorce.
Show threadslyborg4d ago
@User47 I thought everyone adjusted power? I don’t want to defrost at max power.
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago
@slyborg welcome to the most non-prestigious fraction of a percent club
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 My first microwave in my current home was a Panasonic with inverter tech. I thought it was important and paid extra to have it. But when it died less than 10 years later, I just bought one that fit in the same spot. It might be a GE, but I can't remember. I actually like it a lot more.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 Also, I PROGRAM my microwave. For example, oatmeal is 2:30 on high followed by 5:00 at 40%.
Show threadCOD4d ago
@mlanger @User47 Everything in a microwave is cooked on full power in increments of 30 seconds using the +30 seconds button. The rest of the buttons are useless
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@chrisod @User47 Not in my world. Although I don't use any of the buttons labeled with food names.
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago
@mlanger @chrisod also apparently the new sensors are good and use steam as a pretty accurate indication of “doneness” for a lot of stuff.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 @chrisod My very first microwave, which I got as a housewarming gift in the mid 1980s, had a temperature probe that could be stuck into a roast and automatically turn off the microwave at a predetermined temperature. It was absolutely perfect for warming milk or water in preparation for making bread. It was also incredibly underpowered by today's standards and although I loved it and took it with me when I moved to Washington, I wound up giving it away on craigslist.
Show threadCOD4d ago
@mlanger @User47 My parents bought one in 81 or 82 that weighed about 50 pounds. People thought it was the future of cooking and that we'd be eating nothing but microwaved food by 1990. I took that microwave to college. It pulled so much power I had to yell to my frat house neighbor to turn off his space heater before I used it, or it would blow the fuse. And by fuse, I mean a literal glass fuse. The frat house predated circuit breakers, or insulation for that matter.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎3d ago

@chrisod @User47 Oh, those were the days!

I actually have a few microwave cookbooks dating back from those days. There are a few recipes that I still turn to. One is for an excellent Greek pastichio. Another is for chicken okra gumbo where every single component is made inside the microwave, including the cooked chicken and chicken broth.

Show threadCOD4d ago
@User47 @mlanger The defrost cycle on ours works shockingly well. I've used it a couple of times in an emergency when I forgot to defrost something I needed in 5 minutes, and the microwave did an impressive job of defrosting without cooking.
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago
@chrisod @mlanger I understand this. I was there. There is redemption for these sins in the inverter and power buttons.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 @chrisod Your microwave has an inverter button? I'm pretty sure my inverter feature was automatic. If I put it on any power other than 100, it would feed lower power into the microwave instead of cycling it between high power and off. I've come to realize that that really isn't necessary.
Show threadJL Johnson 3d ago
@mlanger @chrisod oh, the inverter doesn’t really do much if you only nuke on full blast. The lower power settings in pre inverter were a combo of (or only) intermittent power instead of lower power
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎3d ago

@User47 @chrisod Now I'm trying to figure out what I said that led you to believe I didn't know that.🤔

I'm pretty sure my current microwave does not have an inverter because I can clearly hear it cycling on and off at power settings other than 100%.